This quote attracted my attention given that a number of my blog posts have been discussing the depictions of excessive consumption in Marie Antoinette and 4, and the representations of systems of control (over women/ image/ identity/ labour/ self/ fertility/ etc) in Ten, Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men, Dogville, and A Ma Soeur:
“Rather than appeal to the schizo-body or the Body Without Organs, feminism might look to its bodily questions – of eating disorders, abortion, beauty, care, rape, difference – and realise that a philosophy of the body is less appropriate than a bodily philosophy. Thought takes place in a body, as a body, and so a theory of the body in general could not be a true response to the problem of the body. This body is in some instances a body-image, in others it is a body-thing, and often a body-effect. ” (Clare Colebrook, Is Sexual Difference a Problem?, p126)
